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BIG FLEET
ANCHORS li
FRISCO BAY
Led by the Connecticut,
Evans' Battleships Enter
Sari Francisco Harbor, Es
corted by All Manner of
Pleasure Craft.
Nearly One Million People
View Great Naval Display
From Hills and Docks
Great Enthusiasm When
Vessels Enter Port.
San Francisco, May 6. Headed by
the battleship Connecticut the battle
blp fleet entered port this noon. .
At 11 o'clock the hate lifted and
the tun shone. The eea wag quite
heavy outside and the bay was
choppy. At 11:15 the signal "up
anchor" was flung out by the Con
necticut, and almost at the same
moment the anchors came up and
the Connecticut moved harborward.
followed at safe intervals by her
sister ships and the torpedo-boat de
stroyers. Immediately upon receipt of word
that the fleet had started, the ships
of the Pacific battleship fleet and Its
torpedo-boat destroyers, with the auxil
iary ships, prepared to fall Into the big
parade and the patrol-boats steamej
up and down the sea-way line to keep
the launches and excursion-boats with
in the limits prescribed for them.
As Admiral Evans' ship got fairly
under way, they presented a beautiful
sight. Their prows nosed through the
water l(ke knives, throwing up a gnat
spray that washed back upon the bulg
ing white sides of the mammoth armor
'clads. Steaming slowly, -4hey gave the
sightseers upon the beach an excellent
opportunity to . witness tbelr passage
Into the gate.
As the Connecticut arrived within
the reservation the guns at Fort Baker
and the Presidio roared out their sa
lutes. The speed of the Connecticut was
slackened s bit while it was passing the
forts and all of the vessels behind her
slowed up. Their steadiness of forma
tion aroused the highest admiration and
completed a- marine picture beyond
compare.
The torpedo boat destroyers steamed
along on the port side of the big ships
and were almost completely hidden from
the view of th San Francisco side.
Meiggs' wharf, on the eastern extrem
ity of the Presidio, was reached shortly
after 12:40. The ships . at this point
were close enough to shore for the men
on board to hear the cheers of the en
thusiastic multitude ashore. Bluejack
ets and officers manned the rails, an
swering and waving their caps.
As the Connecticut reached Alcatras
Island she let go her great turret guns
In reply to the salutes of the forts. The
ship was almost hidden behind the
clouds of smoke belching from the can
non. Turning Into the north channel
the 16 battleships, with the torpedo
boat destroyers still steaming on their
port side, sailed past Angel Island, where
the Pacific fleet of battleships and
cruisers, the Pacific torpedo flotilla and
the auxiliaries were awaiting the order
to fall In line, which came Immediate
ly after the last ship in the Atlantic
fleet had cleared the Island.
With clocklike precision the waiting
ships fell Into line ind then in fleet
formation the combined squadrons con
tinued the journey past Mission Rock
and maneuvered back to their anchor
ages off the city.
13 VICTIMS
OF LA PORTE
MURDERERS
Nine Mutilated Bodies Are
Unearthed in Yard of the
House Which Was Fu-
' neral Iyre of Mrs. Gunness
and Her Three Children.
Police :-f Believe Farm Was
Clearing: House for Gang
bt VUlainous Cut-Throats
Who Shipped Bodies of
Victims in Trunks.
Bier
3Iartin Robbed Safe and Was
Arrested and Fined, His
Wife Coining to His Res
cue With Money, Which
Secured His Release.
DOCTOR GRIFFIN OF SALEM SAYS
prisoner; was once in his cam
(Doited Press Lsiwd Wire.)
Lalorte, Ind., May 6. Three ad
ditional bodies were found upon the
farm of Mrs. Belle Gunness, the sup
posed multi-murderess, today. One
was dug up early this morning and
this afternoon two more were found
burled la the rear of the Gunness
house. Thick mattresses had been
placed over the bodies before the dirt
was shoveled over them.
(Continued on Page Five )
(United Press Lensfc Wire.)
La Porte, Ind., May 6. Six mu
tilated bodies unearthed here by the
police, besides the charred corpses
of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three
children, tell a story of carnage and
murder unequaled since the days of
H. H. Holmes, the modern bluebeard
at Chicago. Mrs. Gunness and her
three children were burned to death
in a fire of Incendiary origin a week
ago Today the sixth victim of the
murderers was found buried in the
yard of her farmhouse. It Is be
lieved that at least five other bodies
will be found before the hunt is
ended.
The police believe Mrs. Gunness was
a member or the Dana or wnoiesaie
murderers and that her accomplices fi
nally burned her to death after some
kind of a quarrel. Ray Lamphere, for
merly an employe on the Gunness farm,
has been arrested on suspicion of hav
ing set fire to the house, but denies
his split or that he knew of the nu
merous murders which occurred there.
He admits, however, that he had long
been suspicious of the woman who em
ployed him.
Body in Back. ,
The arrest of Lamphere was followed
by the discovery of a sack, containing
the head, arms, legs and hacked body
of a man, burled near the fence sur
rounding the ruins of the Gunness
home. The body had evidently been cut
up with a saw by the fiendish murderer.
This gruesome find later proved to be
the corpse of Andrew Heltegreen of
Aberdeen, South Dakota, who came to
La Porte last January to marry Mrs.
Gunness.
Heltegreen met Mrs. Gunness through
an affinity bureau. He arrived her in
January and was last seen alive Feb
ruary 3. His brother, . John, who is
here, says Andrew announced his in
tention of marrying the woman but that
he does not know whether he did so.
Last winter Andrew Heltegreen re
quested a bank In La Porte to cash a
3.000 draft on the Indorsement of Mrs.
Gunness. The bank declined to accept
the Indorsement and took the draft for
collection. The mony arrived .from Ab
erdeen and was paid to the woman. She
immediately took up a note for $000 and
paid a number of other debts, depositing
the $"00 that remained.
It Is believed by the police that Lam
phere was a suitor for the hand of Mrs.
Chief Secrist Furnished the
Portland Police With De
scription of Man Claimed
to Be Regular Army Lieutenant.
(Continued on Page Four.)
FOUR PERSONS HURT
IN AUTO WRECK AT
SEATTLE LAST NIGHT
(Dslted Press teased Wire.)
Seattle, May 6. Four were seriously
and two perhaps fatally Injured late
Tuesday alght whan an auto, running
ata high rate of sped. Jumped the
Fourth-avenue south - bridge, v whining
thrnugh spare ' for a distance of 100
feet and dropped to tna tide flats be
low. - The four were In the "water for
. an hour befor being rescued by the
-lire department. All were seint to hos
pitals. The occupants of the car were i
.. Miss Alice Kester, right knee crashed,
body bruised and Injured internally.;.
' illss Haiel-Rosi, internally injured.
Henry C. Hlbbard. son of C L Hlb
bard, secretary-treasurer Hlbbard-
Stewart company, left side crushed and
several ribs broken. -
Edwin C. Bennett, manager of Ben
nett Co., face crushed. ,
The Jatter was ertlng as chauffeur.
Mus Kester and Miss Ross may not
recover. . All parties are well known
socially..- The party was returning to
town from South Seattle and must have
been travellngt.a very high rate, as
the ear failed to take ths curve and
went craahrnar through the ValHng'ajid
landed 100 feet away from the bridge Ja
It feet of water. 4
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.) '
Vancouver, Wash., May 6. Ed
ward H. Martin, arrested in Portland
on the charge of murdering Nathan
Wolff, a Portland pawnbroker, has a
police record in tbJs city, and curious
ly enough was arrested f6r fobbing
the safe of M. Clow, a local pawn
broker. From the varied story told
the Vancouver police by Martin,
Chief Secrist of the local force, be
lieves Martin likely to deny the
charge of murder in the face of the
most incriminating evidence. It was
partially through a description of the
man furnished the Portland author
ities by Chief Secrist who knew him
well that his capture was effected
yesterday.
Martin came to Vancouver early last
summer, claiming at that time to be a
lieutenant In the regular army, although
as a matter of fact her had been disc
charged from the army previously.
While here Martin was known to use
drugs and an entire outfit for the use of
morphine was found on his person. On
the morning of July 7 Martin went Into
the pawnshop of M. Clow and, asking
the price of revolvers, quickly opened
the drawer of the money box In the
store safe and secured $15. The theft
was soon discovered and the "ex-army
officer" arrested. He stoutly denied his
guilt and said to Chief Secrist: '.'Officer,
do you know what you are doing when
you arrest an officer of the United
States army?" However, he was taken
to police headquarters and ths
searched. The $16 stolen was found in
his shoe.
Martin's trial was to come up before
the superior court on a charge of grand
larceny, but through the Influence of
his wife and friends the charge was re
duced to petty larceny. Martin pleaded
?;illty and was fined $30, this amount be
ng paid by his wife. After his expe
rience here Martin soon-left town and
has ' not been seen since by the local
authorities.
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f Edward H. Martin, the Prominent Figure In the Forejcround, Detective Hillyer to the Extreme Right and Detective Jones in the Center
STARTLED MRS. BOYLE
To all of his friends who saw Ed
ward H. Martin during the exciting
chase yesterday, the fugitive vehement
ly denied any knowledge of the Wolff
murder and to all declared that he In
tended giving himself up to the police.
At about 10 o'clock hei Is believed to
have stopped In a butcher shop where
hla wife's relative, James Boyle, is em
ployed. Shortly before noon he went to
Boyle's home at 378 East Davis street,
where he saw Mrs. Boyle.
"He was terribly excited," said Mrs.
Boyle today, "and the sweat was stand-
I begged him to
Ing out on his face.
give, himself up to the police, but he
said he had already agreed to do so at
6 o'clock. He asked me to telephone
my husband and find out when he
would be home, and when I told him to
do so he eald. 'Oh, I can't go out of the
house they are following me so close
ly. They would catch me In a min
ute.' "When I asked him If he had killed
the man he said, "No, I am as Innocent
as your little child standing there. I
know nothing whatever about the mur-
DEFENSE VILL BE
ON LIKE
(Continued on Page Three.)
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Admiral Evans1 Flagship Connecticut, Oft Port San Pedro.
Salem, May 6. Edward Hugh
Martin, under arrest In Portland for
the murder of Pawnbroker Nathan
Wolff, was treated for insanity, oc
casioned by excessive use of cocaine,
by Dr. David B. Griffin, of Salem,
a year ago. The young man was
treated by the physician for a fort
night and at the end of that time
was discharged apparently sane and
free from the mania for the deadly
drug. He gained in weight while
undergoing treatment .from . 1?3.
pounds up to 142 pounds.
Dr. Griffin stated in an Interview
thts morning as follows In regard to
Martin, whose picture he Identified as
the man he treated:
"Martin was brought to me hers by
bjs father May J3. 1S07. from Portland.
where fie had been arrested for running
wildly about ths streets with a hypor
dermic syringe In his hand, calling
loudly for the police to come to his aid;
that he had locked two cocaine fiends
in his cellar and that they were being
pulled to pieces by degrees and that .
he could hear their-groans. ', After ha
was arrested, Influence was brought t
bear and he escaped -being sent to th's
rockplle for 90 day
He
WU hrourht tn thin ettv tiv hla
in, wnoae name i tmn ne said waa
Hugh Martin,' and whom, he claimed,;
was., a wealthy New Tork broker. K :
waa violently insane, and while he dull
not attempt to kill anybody we did not
dare trust .him for a single minute
while he was under treatment.
"Martin was apparently cured of In
sanity when we let him go, though ha!
had not entirely recovered from the useJ
of cocaine. I believed be would uu-i
doubtedly become Insane again If be re-'
sorted to the pernicious drug.:
Toward the end of hla treatment,. Mar-
tin told me much of his former life and
education. He waa remarkably welt ed
ucated, and knew a great deal about
military engineering. . f
"After leaving me I beard from Mar
tin several times, the last time about
four months ago, when he told me he
waa not using the drug and weighed liJ
pounds."
Dr. Griffin has many drawings and
diagrams made by Martin while undf r
hla care. Dr. Griffin is no relation t
Mrs. Martin, who was a Miss Griffin
before her marriage.
(Continued oa Page Tliree.)
ORCHARD REPRIEVED:
FIRES ATTORNEY FOR
TRYING TO SAVE HIM
r-
(United Press Leasts Wire.)
Boise, Ida, May (.---Governor Good
ing will grant a reprieve for - Harry
Orchard, who la sentenced to be banged
May 15 for the murder pf former Gov
ernor Steunenberg, and the case will
not oe considered ov tne eoara or pa
dona sntil lta next regular meetln
July I. . . r
The board today declined to take up
the caae, owing to the fact that the le
gality of the proceedings has been
brought Into Question. It Is held by the
attorney genera that the board cannot
take up new matters -at a special meet
ing. ' - - - :
Frank Wymsn. attorney for Orchard,
when this ruling waa mads asked Gov-
ernor Gooding; if a reprieve Could t
granted, and was given assurance thet
suchr action would betaken.
Orchard yesterday addressed a' letter
to Wyman, In which he d!sml8d M i
as his attorney, H expressed dh" !-.-. -.
ure at the efforts Wyman had nm ! t
save his life, and reiterated his u-ur
that the execution take place.
Wyman, who was spixiinf ! tr fv
Court, Is not certain 'that On in1
the Dower to dismiss him. and ,
tlnua his .efforts In betiwlf i,f i
demned man, for the prnt t I
Boise. Ids.; Msv t.Governoe "
Ing today sranted a ri-nlo i t I Y -
OreharJ. to July 2. 'li.a.L. irj t.1 l.
dona will meet July 1.,